Their art projects are influenced by multiculture mixture of Central-Eastern Europe. Ventsislav comes from Bulgaria, Katarzyna is Polish, they both live and work in Poland and summer-time in Bulgaria.
Both in Poland (Poznan) and Bulgaria (Staro Zhelezare) they established Art Centers creating their character contextually to the place, and on the basis of their multiculture experience.
The PCCA is based in the heart of Europe's rural exotic - small Bulgarian village all consisted of houses built of adobe (mud bricks). The PCCA is also seated in such a building, belonged to the ancestors of Piryankovs. It is placed in the real center of Thracian valley and is surrounded by plenty of tumuluses with ancient tombs and temples. The artists were inspired by the occasion of culture impact of contemporary art on village society grown on ancient roots and traditions, and wide possibilities this mixture can provoke and create. .
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| In this garden we cultivate art, not vegetables!!! |
Mission
PCCA is attempting to evolve as a new type of cultural institution in which various fields of art coexist with each other, interact, and transgress their own boundaries, in order to create new qualities and phenomena. The PCCA draws particular attention to the relationship between art and society, as well as interdisciplinarity, interactivity, site-specific productions, various forms of collaboration, networking, and co-production. The PCCA would like to transform itself into more of a space for artistic exploration, research, laboratories, workshops, and experiments than remain a traditional exhibition space. The divergent nature of artistic creativity can play a very important role in trying to understand the development of society; it can also become an instrument of social growth through stimulating questions, and also – through provocation.
The PCCA program will determine the fundamental objectives required to meet the needs of local and and global, traditional and modern society groups within the following categories:
Exploration/research
Artistic exploration and a research-like approach to the surrounding reality lie at the heart of the activities undertaken by the Piryankov Centre for Contemporary Art. These aim to strengthen the relationship between the visual arts and other areas of culture (including music, theater, film and new technologies), but also between art and society. The assumption underpinning these conjectures is that the areas with the greatest innovative potential are performance and art in public space, both of which may be regarded to some extent as points of contact between the various fields of art; as well as between art and its audience. Not only do these areas enjoy considerable popularity, but they are also flexible research tools that allow for both the evaluation of reactions and observation of human behaviors and organizational systems. The research will focus on fundamental topics which are becoming central to the life of modern society.
Education
The introduction of innovative art processes to the public is the foundation upon which the progress of society as a whole rests. The PCCA is taking extensive measures facilitating the development of educational processes that see art as a means to explore and understand society, using such tools as debates, guided tours, workshops, publications, and documentary videos.
Residency Program
The Residency Program is mainly addressed to our students from the School of Art in Poznan, but other applicants are also welcome. The Program runs in July and August, gives young artists the opportunity to utilize PCCA as a home and a workshop to create and develop their own work. In addition to creating and developing their work, artists share their creative process at PCCA with the community through open rehearsals, workshops, and artist talks. We believe this is an important growth experience for young artists as they learn to talk about their work, interact with the public, and receive audience feedback as they move forward in the process of creation. The Center supplements these public gatherings with lectures, screenings, educational partnerships, internships, and other creative engagements.
Participation
PCCA stimulates and facilitates the development of a demand for active participation in the creation of culture. The PCCA would therefore like to transform itself into more of a place for meetings and active participation. For this reason, it not only creates resting areas and spaces for social interaction, both within the building and in the courtyard, but also carries out projects that allow the audience to actively participate, all the while using and developing their own creative potential.
Promotion of creativity
The primary aim of the centre for research and experiments, thus conceived, is to support the development and promotion of creativity – in the village, across the region, throughout the whole country, but also abroad – concentrating on wide Polish-Bulgarian relations. The presence of international audience, artists, curators and intellectuals, who have chosen to associate themselves with PCCA, can only strengthen the development of culture while reinforcing the importance of Bulgarian art throughout the world. By using parts of the place for the exhibitions and projects of artists of the younger generation, also comming here for residence programs from Poland, we hope to underscore our commitment to providing appropriate conditions for young talent to flourish.
Katarzyna and Ventsislav Piryankov both studied at Poznan Academy of Fine Arts. As artists, they do painting, multimedia, art specific projects, installations, performances and happenings. But organizing art events, curatoring, social art research and education lie also in their highest interest having impact on their art activity. Their work combines the freshness and sentimental folkloric motifs with an overlay of realist portraiture in context of contemporary global spitit with its culture chellenges and problems. Their art is unambiguously contemporary, humorous to a fault, politically and culturally provocative. They are original, balancing outsiders technique with high conceptual art and urban folk-artist know-how. Some can label their art post-surrealist, shamanistic psychedelic, neo-expressionist, or socially engaged, but it is, simply put, fresh and original.
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